Throughout their years living in New York City, Bryan Petroff and Douglas Quint had always focused on their respective careers — until they got themselves a Big Gay Ice Cream Truck. Their seasonal truck debuted in June 2009 and since then the business has seen a whirlwind of publicity and has been become an NYC favorite. Big Gay Ice Cream spins a new take on the old school ice cream parlor experience by mixing high quality ingredients with guilty pleasures, traditional flavors with the unexpected, and a youngster's imagination with an adult's know wink and satirical tongue. It's both for kids and for those of us who are kids at heart.

To help bring rainbow sprinkles and Salty Pimps to ice cream lovers year-round, the first Big Gay Ice Cream Shop opened in September 2011 in New York City’s East Village, a West Village location in December 2012. In 2015 they stepped outside NYC and opened in Philadelphia's Center City. 2016 welcomed the opening of Shake Society, their smaller-menu kiosk concept that features milkshakes and soda floats.

In June 2012, Dessert Professional featured Big Gay Ice Cream in their 10 best ice cream parlors in the U.S. issue. Then in May 2013, The Daily Beast and USA Today ranked Big Gay Ice Cream as the #5 best ice cream parlor in the world – the highest ranked U.S. ice cream parlor on the list. Their soft-serve has been called “awesome” by the press and The Village Voice placed Big Gay Ice Cream as one of “New York’s ice cream powerhouses – not only for what they do with ice cream, but for the ice cream itself."

The pair released their first cookbook. Big Gay Ice Cream: Saucy Stories & Frozen Treats: Going All the Way with Ice Cream in April 2015, published by Clarkson Potter. In spring 2017 they launched seven packaged ice cream pints flavors that are both re-creations of some of the most popular flavors at the Big Gay Ice Cream shop and concoctions that were created just for the pints.

SERIOUS EATS NEW YORK2010 People's Choice Awards: Best New School Food Truck

SERIOUS EATS NEW YORK2009 Best New Food Truck

ALI FORNEY CENTER

Big Gay Ice Cream proudly supports the Ali Forney Center, which has been making a difference by rescuing homeless LBGTQ youth from the streets and placing them into safe environments since 2002. They are currently expanding their facilities to include the Bea Arthur Residence, an 18-bed residential supportive housing facility in the East Village. For more information, please click here.